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| Date: | Tuesday 28 August 2001 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21FL |
| Owner/operator: | Indian Air Force - IAF |
| Registration: | |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Sonitpur district, Assam -
 India
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Tezpur AFS (VETZ) |
Crashed into a ditch near Besseria, close to Tezpur police station, after bird strike (vulture) on training mission. F/O A. Bansal ejected but died when parachute did not properly deploy.
Sources:
Scramble 269
http://web.archive.org/web/20171020043724/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/Aircraft_by_Type/INDIA/mig_21_india.htm
AFM October 2001, p73/November 2002, p75
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 10-Jan-2009 11:55 | ASN archive | Added |
| 19-Feb-2017 10:32 | JF | Updated [Aircraft type, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 22-Feb-2017 10:06 | JF | Updated [Narrative, ] |
| 18-Oct-2019 09:13 | TB | Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 11-Feb-2020 09:22 | TB | Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Narrative, ] |
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